Sixty-five percent of Americans believe the gap
between the country's rich and everyone else has widened in the past 10
years. Some 67 percent said they were unhappy with wealth distribution in the
United States, and 43 percent of Americans believe the government
should do "a lot" to help reduce the gap.

A majority, 77 percent, of Americans in a September 2013 poll said it is harder for them, and individuals like them, to pay for a college education. In a November 2013 poll, 45 percent of Americans said paying for college would be "very" or "somewhat" realistic, and 47 percent said it would not be realistic.